Senior Center Needs Help And Things

DEERFIELD BEACH - — The Northeast Focal Point Senior Center is expanding its coffee shop, thrift shop and activity room, and it could use a little help.

The center at 227 NW Second St., which has completed construction and should be up and running this week, has added an exercise area to its activity room and needs exercise equipment.

Needed are a rowing machine, exercise bikes, treadmills, mats and hand weights from one to five and six to 10 pounds.

Books are needed for the new library - hardand soft-covered, new and used. The books will be loaned out, and the supply replenished with the money from book fairs, said project director Donna DeFronzo.

Supplies for the expanded coffee shop have been donated, DeFronzo said.

Two new restrooms have been added to the center, thanks to a community block grant of $297,000.

The expanded thrift shop could use some donated items. Especially needed are small and large appliances such as lamps, toaster ovens, can openers, washers, dryers and stoves. The center has a truck with a hydraulic lift that will go anywhere in Broward or Palm Beach counties to pick up donated items, DeFronzo said. All donated items are tax deductible.

The center would like people to purchase memorial plates for themselves or others that would be placed on the backs of new chairs. The engraved plates cost $60.

As much as it needs things, the center needs people.

Volunteers are needed for the library, coffee shop, to instruct classes and to work in the thrift shop.